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Kristi Noem has finally filed for divorce from her husband, Bryon Noem ... months after claims about his cross-dressing and wearing fake boobs surfaced.

The former Secretary of Homeland Security filed for divorce in Hamlin County, South Dakota, on Monday.

Kristi's citing the boilerplate irreconcilable differences. She also left the door open to ask for support.

Diddy just got another chunk shaved off his federal prison stint ... his release date moved up another month ... and he could be a free man just three weeks into 2028.

According to Federal Bureau of Prisons records, Sean "Diddy" Combs is currently scheduled to be released from FCI Fort Dix on Jan. 21, 2028.

That's another move in Diddy's favor. As TMZ previously reported, his release date had most recently been set for Feb. 5, 2028, after previously landing on Feb. 20.

His projected release has bounced around several times since initially being listed in June 2028.

One of Nick Carter's sexual assault accusers may need to find a new lawyer as she continues to fight the pop star in court ... her legal team is asking a judge to let them out of the case due to a breakdown in communication with their client ... TMZ has learned.

According to new legal docs, obtained by TMZ, the lawyers representing Shannon Ruth in her case against the Backstreet Boys singer are asking permission to withdraw as her counsel.

The attorneys say they could "no longer adequately represent [Shannon]" due to a "breakdown in communication on fundamental issues of the case."

10:18 AM PT -- Cops say J.R. Smith was arrested Monday after an automatic license plate reader flagged the vehicle he was driving and alerted officers to an active warrant.

Smith was pulled over and taken into custody on the family violence assault warrant before being booked into the Hunt County Detention Center. His brother was with him and took possession of the vehicle.

Former NBA star and two-time champion J.R. Smith was arrested in Texas on a family violence charge.

According to Hunt County jail records, Smith was booked on a charge of assault causing bodily injury family violence.

Smith remains in the Hunt County Detention Center, and jail records show no bond has been set.

Blake Lively is cleaning house after her brutal legal war with Justin Baldoni ... cutting ties with longtime publicist Leslie Sloane after nearly two decades together.

Page Six reports Blake dropped Sloane -- who had been with her since the "Gossip Girl" days -- months after Blake and Baldoni finally settled their scorched-earth "It Ends With Us" legal war.

Sloane wasn't just watching the legal mess from the sidelines either ... Baldoni's $400 million lawsuit dragged her and her firm, Vision PR, directly into the fight ... accusing them of taking part in a smear campaign against him. Those claims were later dismissed.

Sunny Hostin is doing some cleanup after internet sleuths dug up old newspaper clips that seemed to blow a hole in her story about being the holdout juror who helped acquit a cannibal in a famous NYC murder trial.

The 'View' cohost sat down with executive producer Brian Teta for the show's "Behind the Table" YouTube series to explain exactly what happened during the 1991 trial of Daniel Rakowitz -- the man charged with murder for killing, dismembering, and cannibalizing Monika Beerle.

Sunny claimed last week she had been the holdout juror who pushed the panel toward finding Rakowitz not criminally responsible by reason of insanity -- saying she slowly won over the other jurors after initially facing major resistance.

Lil Wayne isn't just back together with Madi Cannon ... he's wifing her up!!!

The rapper announced Monday night that he and Madi are engaged ... a shocking development that comes just months after they split.

While making a video congratulating B.G. on his own engagement, Weezy revealed he put a ring on it, saying ... "Congratulations, bitch. And I'm marryin' this one. This is Madison. This is my fiancée."

Odell Beckham Jr.'s second act in New York didn't last long ... after three very quiet games, Big Blue cut the former All-Pro wideout, paving the way for him to sign with another team.

There was a ton of excitement swirling around the 33-year-old aging superstar when he signed with the Giants, and against all odds, actually made the 53-man roster.

Unfortunately, this fairy tale doesn't come with a happy ending.

Odell was all but invisible during the Giants' first three games. Beckham Jr. was only targeted once and never caught a pass. Three games played, zero receptions.

A 6-month-old baby girl was found dead in a dumpster in South Los Angeles ... and her mother is in custody as police investigate the infant's death as a homicide.

The baby was discovered in the trash receptacle late Monday night in South L.A. ... though LAPD says the child had been left there sometime in the previous 24 hours.

Cops say firefighters responded to the scene and took the baby to a nearby hospital ... where she was pronounced dead.

Lindsay Clancy's legal team is now making a dramatically different argument than it did at her murder trial ... claiming there's no evidence she killed her three children at all.

Clancy's attorney Kevin Reddington told Judge William Sullivan Tuesday she never admitted to doing anything and argued the evidence doesn't establish that she was the one who killed the children -- a major shift from the defense at trial, when her lawyers argued she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and lacked criminal responsibility.

Prosecutors are pushing back and asking for another trial, arguing there was enough evidence for a jury to find Clancy criminally responsible. A Nov. 2 hearing is now on the calendar, when the court could potentially set a date for a retrial.

Reddington also accused President Trump and Rep. Nancy Mace of helping turn the case into a media circus, pointing to Trump's public comments and Mace's interview with TMZ DC, telling Jacob that Clancy should be publicly executed.

10:38 AM PT ... Law enforcement sources tell TMZ ... investigators do not believe the latest alleged ransom note sent to one of Nancy's female friends is credible. We're told there are some "weird things" about the note and investigators are more than suspicious that a friend of Nancy's would receive a legit extortion ransom note 8 months after the fact.

Investigators are breathing new life into the Nancy Guthrie case, saying they are looking into the veracity of a “new possible ransom note."

The Pima County Sheriff's Office announced they have recently been made aware of the note, along with social media comments about it ... and they are now probing with the FBI to see if the note is authentic. The contents of the note were not released.

As you know ... the 84-year-old Guthrie was kidnapped from her home in Tucson, Arizona, in the early morning hours of February 1, 2026. A masked intruder was caught on a doorbell camera lurking at her front door before the abduction ... and the FBI released footage of the suspect.

The woman who claims she was drugged and gang-raped by seven Cornell students inside a frat house texted with one of the men she named in her lawsuit two days after the alleged encounter ... he apologized, and she told him the "sexual stuff" wasn't illegal.

CBS News New York obtained screenshots of a text message conversation between the woman and one of the seven men she sued ... and he apologized for "how things went down."

The frat bro says he should have "shut it down and kick people out before it got way out of hand."

The woman told him her memory was "super clouded too" and said, "non[e] of the sexual stuff was illegal."

Mario Lopez and Tiffani Thiessen are remembering their on-screen principal, Dennis Haskins, with touching tributes after the "Saved By The Bell" star's death.

Mario -- who played A.C. Slater on "Saved By The Bell" -- says he's "heartbroken to hear about my old friend Dennis Haskins."

He continued ... "If you knew him, you loved him -- and if there was karaoke, you knew Dennis was getting on that mic!"

Milania Giudice is getting some more time to fight her domestic violence case ... with her lawyers successfully pushing her next court date back more than two months ... and it seems like it's all because of an alarming airport incident.

The 20-year-old's hearing, which had been set for late September, is now scheduled for Dec. 1, according to Page Six.

Milania previously pleaded not guilty to a simple assault charge stemming from her May arrest following an alleged domestic dispute at her mom Teresa Giudice's New Jersey home.

The holdout juror in Lindsay Clancy's murder case is asking the public to stop focusing on him and to turn their attention back to the three young children who lost their lives.

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Diego Sarabia -- one of the seven Cornell University fraternity brothers accused of taking part in an alleged 2024 gang rape -- is out of a job at Wells Fargo amid the revived criminal investigation.

Could you imagine a world where Erika Kirk is a Bravolebrity? Well, it almost happened ... at least according to Charlie Kirk's widow.

In a new interview with Vanity Fair, Erika revealed that while she was living in New York eight years ago, she was approached about joining the cast of the reality show, "Summer House."

She told the mag ... "My role would've been the Bible-​banging Christian girl who doesn’t party."